The Farm Journal Illustrated Rural Directory of Monroe County, New ...

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for their hearty health, rapid and easy
digestion and speedy, profitable growth.
THUMPS.—This disease is quite common
(especially in the early spring) and
is exceedingly hard to handle when once
contracted. More can be done to prevent
than to cure. You visit the sow and litter
in the morning to give them their
accustomed feed, and you notice that one
of the fattest and plumpest ones dons not
leave his bed as do the others. You enter
the sleeping room and compel him
to come out, which he does somewhat
reluctantly, and you will notice that his
sides move with a peculiar jerking motion,
and if allowed he will soon return
to his bed. Rest assured he has thumps,
and nine chances to one he will die. It
is caused by fatty accumulations about
the breast, which interfere with its action,
and the lungs work hard—pump for
dear life to keep up the heart's action—
to send the blood through the body. The
pig is famt because of feeble circulation,
and he is cold, and soon dies from exhaustion
or weakness. He has no
strength to suck or move.
To prevent thumps, get over .into the
pen several times a day and hustle the
little pigs about the pen; also stint the
sow so that she will give less milk. Pigs
when they stir about, and when they are
thin in flesh, rarely have thumps. _
Thumps rarely occurs among pigs farrowed
after the weather is fine, but does
quite frequently occur among pigs farrowed
in early spring. If the weather is
cold and stormy and the sow and litter
keep their bed much, then be on the lookout
for thumps. Guard against it by
compelling both sow and litter to exercise
in the open air.
CANKEROUS SORE MOUTH IS a disease
which is quite common and which if not
promptly taken in hand is often quite
fatal. When pigs are from a fewdays
to two weeks old, you may notice a
slight swelling of the lips or a sniffling
in the nose. An examination will show
a whitish spongy growth on the sides of
the mouth just inside the lips or around
the teeth. This is cankerous sore mouth
and if not taken promptly in hand will
result in the death of the entire litter,
and will sometimes spread to other
litters. .. . . .
Some claim the disease is caused by
damp and filthy beds, others say it comes
from a diseased condition of the sow,
and still others claim it is caused by the
little pigs fighting over theJ? ts *
wounding each other with their sftarp
teeth, and stoutly aver that if the teeth
are promptly removed no case of sore
mouth will ever occur.
Hold the pig firmly and with a knife
or some cutting instrument remove all
the spongy foreign growth, and be sure
you get it. all even though the pig may
squeal and the wound bleed; your success
in treating the disease will depend
largely on the thoroughness with which
you remove this foreign growth. After
removing the fungous growth apply an
ointment made of glycerine and carbolic
acid in about the proportion of one part
of the acid to from five to eight parts
glycerine. Repeat this each day for
three or four days and the disease will
usually yield. You may discover in a
day or two after commencing treatment
that you did not succeed in removing all
the cankerous growth at first, and if so,
repeat the cutting operation till you do
remove it all.
Another treatment which we have,
heard recommended is to catch the diseased
pig and dip his nose and mouth
up to his eyes in chlora naptholeum without
diluting it This is certainly easily
done and is highly commended by the
person suggesting it.
BLIND STAGGERS, INDIGESTION, SICK
STOMACH, FOUNDER.—Causes, over-feeding,
especially common with new corn;
sour or decayed food. Sudden warm
sultry weather predisposes in highly fed
hogs. Insufficient exercise is also a predisposing
cause.
Symptoms.—Loss of appetite, bowels
constipated, or maybe diarrhoea. In
some severe cases blind staggers and
great paleness of mouth and nose, coldness
of surface of body; abdomen may
be distended and drum-like from contained
gases.
Treatment.—Remove sick animals, provide
clean, dry, well ventilated quarters,
with chance for exercise, and fresh earth
and water. If animal will eat, give light
feed. Give charcoal in lump form, also
mix soda bicarbonate in food at rate
of two tablespoonfuls per day to each
half-grown animal. It is rarely necessary
to drench with medicine. # If recovery
begins, use care not to again feed too
much.
MILK FEVER occurs m sows immediately
after farrowing or within the first
few days afterwards. The symptoms are
loss of milk, swollen, hard condition of
the milk glands, which are .nore or less
painful on pressure. Sow may not allow
the pigs to suck; she may lie flat on her
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